What Are Those Strange Drops of Blood Doing on Jennifer's Body? (1971)
Thoroughly generic giallo thriller with model Jennifer trying to figure out who's killing people in an apartment complex. The red herrings are obvious and the killer's identity and motivation are fairly easy to deduce if you pay attention and think for about five seconds. Very stylish but also fairly dull and suspense-free; one sequence involving Jennifer's break-in of a neighboring apartment generates some tension but that's about it. Too few murder setpieces, as well. (One was borrowed by Dario Argento and used to much better effect in his asskicker Tenebrae.) One major positive: Edwige Fenech as Jennifer is a stunning beauty and spends a stunning amount of the film showing off her stunning body in various stunning states of undress.
Grade: C
Thoroughly generic giallo thriller with model Jennifer trying to figure out who's killing people in an apartment complex. The red herrings are obvious and the killer's identity and motivation are fairly easy to deduce if you pay attention and think for about five seconds. Very stylish but also fairly dull and suspense-free; one sequence involving Jennifer's break-in of a neighboring apartment generates some tension but that's about it. Too few murder setpieces, as well. (One was borrowed by Dario Argento and used to much better effect in his asskicker Tenebrae.) One major positive: Edwige Fenech as Jennifer is a stunning beauty and spends a stunning amount of the film showing off her stunning body in various stunning states of undress.
Grade: C
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